. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Zoology. 348 Bulletin Museum of Comparative Zoology. Vol. 150, No. 6. Figure 2. Adult live Paracfieirodon axelrodi, male above, SL mm, female below, SL mm. Specimens not retained. Paracheirodon.^ See the species descrip- tions for new locality records for these three species and a discussion of their dis- tribution. Myers (1936: 97) described the first known neon tetra, Paracheirodon innesi, and placed it in the genus Hyphessobry- con, subfamily Tetragonopterinae, be- cause, among other characters, the holo- ' The- t
. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Zoology. 348 Bulletin Museum of Comparative Zoology. Vol. 150, No. 6. Figure 2. Adult live Paracfieirodon axelrodi, male above, SL mm, female below, SL mm. Specimens not retained. Paracheirodon.^ See the species descrip- tions for new locality records for these three species and a discussion of their dis- tribution. Myers (1936: 97) described the first known neon tetra, Paracheirodon innesi, and placed it in the genus Hyphessobry- con, subfamily Tetragonopterinae, be- cause, among other characters, the holo- ' The- type of llie Paracheirodon (Gery, 19601): 12) is Hyphessobrycon innesi Myers (1936) aiul tlu' name is available for application to all of the neon telras. Another name, Laniproclieirodon Ciery (1960b: 13), proposed as a subgenus with Cheirodon axelrodi Schultz (1956) its type, is also available for the three species, but I'aracheirodon has line pre- cedence over Laniprocheirodon. type appeared to have two rows of premaxillary teeth, the "outer row" rep- resented by a single tooth. Schultz (1956: 42) and Myers and Weitzman (1956: 1) nearly simultaneously described a second species, here called Paracheirodon axel- rodi, with a color pattern similar to the neon tetra. All these authors recognized that P. axelrodi had only one row of pre- maxillary teeth and that it should be placed in the Cheirodontinae according to the then currently accepted subfamilies. Myers and Weitzman chose to question the validity of at least part of the Chei- rodontinae because of the apparent rela- tionship of the two species based on color pattern and body shape. Schultz, on the other hand, chose to place the new fish in. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Harvard University. Museum of Comparative Zoo
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